Missing Values (cont.)

Complicating issue:

• The fact that a value is missing might be indicative of its value

  • The patient did not undergo X-Ray since she complained about fever and not about broken bones….

To learn from incomplete data we need the following assumption:

Missing at Random (MAR):

• The probability that the value of Xi is missing is independent of its actual value given other observed values

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